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Rails Rx Standup: April 12, 2010
Launching Ruby on Rails projects, the video
For those of you who didn’t make it to Rails Underground in July to witness my mind-blowing talk, Launching Ruby on Rails projects , it appears that Skills Matter has finally posted a video of it online. :-)
The sound levels are really low… but hopefully you’ll find it helpful.
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Planet Argon Podcast, Episode 3: How We Manage Bugs
Earlier this week, we published Episode 3 of the Planet Argon Podcast. In this latest episode we responded to one of the ideas someone in the audience asked on this brainstormr, which was, “How do you manage bugs?”
We had a round table discussion about how we classify and prioritize bugs with our clients,...
The 8-Hour Rails Code Audit
While our team is typically focused on larger client and internal projects, we do get an opportunity to assist businesses on a much smaller scale. Whether this be through retainer-based consulting or through code audits, we have seen a lot of Ruby on Rails code over what has nearly been… five years!? We’ve been able...
Pair programming isn’t right for all projects
Slides from my Rails Underground 2009 talk
Hello from London!
Am currently enjoying the talks at Rails Underground 2009 in London and had the pleasure to be one of the first speakers at the conference. My talk covered a collection of what our team considers best practices. Best practices that aid in the successful launch of a web application and covered a few...
Double Shot #491
Remember to Flush Your Toilet
Saw this tweet the other day…
So, I have to ask. How many toilets (buckets) do you maintain? How many of them still have projects/tasks in them? Why haven’t you flushed your toilets yet?
Email. Twice daily. No more, no less.
On a recent trip to Las Vegas, I picked up The Four Hour Workweek for my Amazon Kindle to read on my flight. When I came back from my short vacation, I decided that I was going to change how I approach email on a daily basis. In my position, I receive a lot...
Estimating versus Timeboxing, part 1
As if delivering projects wasn’t hard enough. Delivering projects on time is even harder. As practitioners, we’re all responsible for measuring up the obstacles in front of us and are accountable to those measurements. At least, we should be.
One of those measurements is time. Time is a funny thing. People have a lot of
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